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Killingyouguy! posted:So I've been reading the Operating Systems Security thread in the tech support subforum, and they seem to be of the opinion that all antivirus are equally worthless and one should just go with the one that causes the least issues. On 7 I installed avast! once I heard MSE had gone to poo poo, and kept it around in 10 mostly out of habit. Aside from the occasional popup to tell me that a scan completed successfully, and denying their lovely firefox plugins, I've never had an issue with it. But now that I'm on 10, should I switch to simply using the built-in Defender, or is that a bad plan? Is Defender the same deal as MSE where it was better than nothing but not by much? You can get a PRO key for 35$ on certain subreddits if you're willing to ignore the questionable source. I've recently been looking for a WDE program as well, not having a ton of luck. I've had a decent experience with Symantec's PGP offering at work, but I'm not really sure what the personal versions are like (I imagine fairly similar) and they're around 85$ each. I've heard BitLocker's level of security is questionable given their relationship with the govt, but that's probably true of most mainstream products. PBS fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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The Lord Bude posted:He swears he was never presented with any such option - isn't the default setting to preserve all files? I'll present the Recuva option to him in the morning. I'm mainly trying to figure out if anyone has ever heard of the upgrade stuffing up in this way. If you want to go the Recuva route you're better off presenting it now and having him not use the computer at all. If he's not using there's less chance of overwriting the deleted files.
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The Lord Bude posted:Actually he he rang me just now (he'd gone to bed just before I posted before) - after he shut down last night, when he powered the computer back up, the computer finished installing and all his stuff was suddenly there. Very strange that the computer let him log in last night, and use the computer for a while, when it hadn't finished the migration. I never thought to check something like that, though it was hard to get a word in edgewise through the screaming. Those are always the best problems, the ones that solve themselves.
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Little Mac posted:I have a weird problem... You can buy pro keys online for about 35$. How much free space do you have on the drive, how much space would it take to backup your files?
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Richard M Nixon posted:That's great news. I haven't gone through the thread so I'll go hunt for the post now. I just downloaded the tool so here's hoping. One less step would make me very happy. Let us know. I thought you could only use the old key if doing an upgrade.
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hooah posted:I have that laptop and it only has an SSD. What is this second drive? Believe it has two storage bays if you open it up
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Paranoid Peanut posted:I dunno if somebody else has run into something similar, but I'm having some weird issues with Win10. You could spend a lot of time diagnosing the issue or reformat, whichever is faster. Poster above mentions the refresh tool, may be worth doing first but I've never had a lot of luck. Alternatively you could try the update again and see if it fixes it.
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blue squares posted:windows 10 update system is such garbage Mine's been failing to update for several months. Upgrade tool doesn't work either. I've used it a few days total, hasn't been imaged for more than a few months. Haven't really done anything to cause issues yet.
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